My grandpa was kept in first grade until he was- no joke- THIRTEEN. Eyesight testing didn’t start in Kentucky until 1925, and as soon as they started that they noticed that he was blind as a bat and only was able to pretend that he had the slightest clue what was going on because he was using shadows and hearing. They knew he wasn’t stupid since he was still picking stuff up, but he couldn’t read at ALL. He actually ended up graduating a year of the rest of his class because he loved learning like a mofo. He eventually died while reading a chess strategy book. o_O

My grandpa was kept in first grade until he was- no joke- THIRTEEN. Eyesight testing didn’t start in Kentucky until 1925, and as soon as they started that they noticed that he was blind as a bat and only was able to pretend that he had the slightest clue what was going on because he was using shadows and hearing. They knew he wasn’t stupid since he was still picking stuff up, but he couldn’t read at ALL. He actually ended up graduating a year of the rest of his class because he loved learning like a mofo. He eventually died while reading a chess strategy book. o_O